Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for by faith you stand.
Do not lord over those in your charge, but be examples to the flock.
Now, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you have received, and in which you stand.
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
This is correct. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.
through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and so we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
and begins to strike his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunkards,
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?
This is so that I may be encouraged together with you by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
For you permit it if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes from you, if a man exalts himself, or if a man strikes you on the face.